Sentences with phrase «ecological themes of»

Moore was also an example of how the disease often radicalized an artist and his work, to the extent that he helped found Visual AIDS, the artist's arm of ACT - UP, and conflated his own diminishing life with ecological themes of the degraded landscape.

Often incorporating electric lights and fans, water systems, and houseplants, Sze's installations balance whimsy with ecological themes of interconnectivity and sustainability.

Not exact matches

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

«This paper's theme is about management and is essentially encouraging the use of fire at times and places when it can be used to reduce fuels, to thin forests and restore the ecological role of fire and to help reduce the occurrence of very severe fires in forests where those fires were not characteristic in the past,» Fulé said.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

Welcome to ASPB's Environmental and Ecological Plant Physiology (EEPP) section, the only theme - based section within the American Society of Plant Biologists.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

The Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, is an ecological hotel designed in accordance with boutique hotel standards, is not only one of the best hotels in its class in Peru, but it has received important international distinctions, especially for ecological themes, emphasizing the followings:

Zooming from micro to macro at a moment's notice, Johanson's structures encompass themes ranging from suburban listlessness to ecological disasters and the spiritual health of society.

Grounds for Progress does not attempt to anthologize the overarching themes of historiography, globalization, or ecological devastation.

It's currently filled with a diverse array of gestural paintings that complement each other well with a strong ecological theme running through it.

Giles Lyon is known for large - scale, pop surreal paintings: comic book abstractions that explore themes of interconnectivity and imminent ecological collapse.

During those excursions, he invited artists, writers and scholars working on ecological themes to explore the edges and surface of the creek while interviewing them on their practice and the role of the artist in the Anthropocene.

All five of the saddles focus on themes of natural harmony and the fight between the natural and mechanical worlds, and were created using the brand's own ecological saddle, Becoz.

The installation itself is an elegant and somber display of monochrome ceramic works and benches that, like much of the festival, speaks to material and ecological themes.

Although he's aware of the enormity of the contemporary ecological catastrophe, he does not turn it into the central theme of his work, but integrates it in the many issues that he is concerned about.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

Julian Schnabel's recent series of works, collectively entitled «Fox Farm Paintings,» 1989, places him within the now broad spectrum of artists engaging / exploiting ecological themes and motifs as either entertainment or enlightenment.

Nadim Samman — general curator of the biennial — suggests the theme reflects, like the work submitted to the open call, such cultural developments as «ecological collapse, the dissolution of distinctions between «nature» and technology, the inescapable topography of the network, and the interplay between transparency and opacity in the information age.»

Theme: You can't live in the Catskills without acknowledging the magnificence of the landscape with its natural beauty of mountains, streams and valleys or without being engaged with the ecological aspect of the natural world.

Zane Cerpina is Oslo based artist working within emerging media, focusing on the themes of the Anthropocene, environmental awareness, ecological criticism, interactive technologies and embodied experiences.

The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is organizing an international conference on the theme of «The Future of Consumerism and Well - being in a World of Ecological Constraints» on June 12 - 14, 2013, at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

In addition to outlining Alshaibi's intricate sense of formalism, the photographs, installations, and videos of Collapse indicate the underlying themes that have shaped an ongoing narrative in her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasters.

Culminating World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service, UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value

In 2007, The Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) pilot tested four NWEI discussion courses as part of its college semester program in Iceland focused on a theme of «sustainability through community.»

While environmental themes were less prominent at the Sundance Film Festival this year, our correspondent JoAnn Valenti unearthed ecological messages from documentaries that explore the emergence of climate change refugees in the face of sea level rise, the escape from modernity into wilderness and the confrontation of environmental threats by young innovators.

organized by art center nabi, the project addresses the theme «prototyping of sharing eco city with technology» and invites professionals to generate ideas on urban and ecological issues.

Culminating World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service, UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value of forests — as well as the massive benefits of reducing deforestation.

Whilst the cultural economy is understood by governments and others to describe the subsistence economy of the traditional owners [76], the Indigenous Nations of the MDB «use cultural economy to express themes of ecological restoration and repair, using the logic of holism to connect ecology, culture and economy».